Mig
Great story. Thanks for sharing your day with us.
Dave
Thanks for the wonderful comment. I sent the story in several days back and was anxious to see when Lady would put it up.
You and all the folks at the forum are welcome to look me up if you are ever in this neck of the woods.
Migs
Migs,
Loved the story! Makes me wonder what treasures I might be able to find in my homecountry, Peru. When I left there a few years back I was a saltwater fisherman. I’m hoping to bring my fly rod the next time I go down to see my folks.
Later,
Alberto
[This message has been edited by Alberto (edited 09 May 2005).]
Alberto:
Do you know of any good places to fly fish around Cusco and south of it? Also, does one need a license to fish in Peru?
Migs
I loved it too Migs. Reminded me of a little lake I used to fish on occasion when I lived in Utah. Steep, narrow road hanging off a cliff to the lower lake (where most, 95%, people stopped) and a dang steep hike to the upper lake where you mostly had it to yourself. I did see one guy with a tent and a float tube up there once, but most people didn’t find it worth their time to make the hike with the lower lake right there.
Don
Migs,
Great article & pictures. Good of you to treat the local people too!
Mike
Migs,
I have not fished near Cusco, but I have done some hiking (Caminos del Inca), the Urubamba river looked promising. It comes down to how pristine the waters might be and how much catch-and-keep there is going on.
There is no catch-and-release at home, unfortunately. As for a license, I’m not sure if you’d need one although my guess is no.
Regards,
Alberto
All of you all are too kind with your comments.
THANKS!
Migs
Hey Migs, great place you have down there!!!
I’m from Colombia, I guess my country is just like yours when it comes to fly fishing, we are as strange as “un perro a cuadros”. But still we are there with our long sticks!!
We do have to make some strange “deals” with indigenous peoples neighboring game waters most of all to ask them to avoid using dynamite or other destructive practices.
Any way I am a mountain climber too and will love to visit “la cordillera real” but now I guess I will have to add the fly fishing gear to the already bulky climbing stuff. My climbing partners will wonder again about me staring at a lake or river in ecstasy as the trouts rise, just to run down the peaks after a summit to cast some feathers to “great food” that always goes back to the water!!
Ja Ja their loss. I can manage for months with just oatmeal and tuna but can’t stand a week with out fishing.
Best wishes
Dave
Ps. If you ever happen to visit Colombia just let me know. We have some great places close enough to Bogota, I can show them to you.
Hi Dave:
I might go to Bogota some time since my brother and sister in law live there (they work for McDonalds). E mail me you contact info so I look you up when I go. I don’t have plans yet, but maybe within 2005. Are the FARCS not a problem? That scares me. Everyone is so paranoid in Bogota that I don’t know what to think.
Thank also for the offer,
Migs, the only problem with your story was it made me jealous! Great story with great pics!
Migs:
Well I am very young, just 25, and have travelled Colombia south to north east to west and have had some “encounters” with the guerrillas as well as with the paramilitary and never had a trouble, however in my 10+ years of solo travelling I have met them 3 or 4 times. Plus, great fly fishing places are not to far from Bogota so there is no security issues at all.
There are some waters that are near places that have had issues in the past but to tell you the truth I’ve never heard stories of any fishermen having any troubles. As well as some places that are in the middle of problematic areas where the guerrilla has control and ironically the best controls are performed by them in those places hence the best fishing is located in those places. (no dynamite fishing, no overfishing, etc.) However, it is not dangerous to visit them.
Unless you expect to fish amazonic species everything is OK. Besides it is easier to reach the amazon from La Paz than from Bogota. We still have some great warm water fishing in the llanos, 90 minutes east from Bogota, but I don’t practice it, I’m into trout only.
To make the long story short, don’t believe every thing CNN shows (I worked as a journalist for a newspaper and a news gency and have a pretty clear image of how they work) or the tales of people who has never left the “security” of the city. The best of Colombia is out of it’s cities and it’s perfectly safe to visit it.
I’ll email you this same post for you to have my email but you can click on the little face icon on top of this post and find it out yourself. Just let me know when you’re here and we can work something out.
best regards
Dave
To every one out there:
1- Any info on fly fishing in Ecuador?
2- I am working on putting together an article on some of Colombia’s fly fishing places, I will appreciate your feedback on the interest people may have on it.